With hospital space at a premium, even before the advent of any surges in demand, the need to maximise ward, bed, theatre and laboratory space by minimising the size of medical machinery has rarely been of greater significance than it is today.
High-performance bearings from NSK are now operational in the newly developed N700S Shinkansen (bullet train), which began service on the Tokaido Shinkansen line between Tokyo and Osaka on 1 July 2020.
R.A. Rodriguez (U.K.) Ltd is supplying large turntable bearings and steel spur gears for use in a new generation of slitter-rewinder machines being built by Atlas Converting Equipment Ltd.
WDS Components has supplied component parts to the NHS throughout the Coronavirus crisis, including the first Nightingale Hospital, providing large volumes with rapid delivery.
In the machine industry, the significance of functional safety has grown continuously as a result of advancing digitalisation.